Bastrop State Park - October 31st (All Hallows' Eve, aka: Halloween)

RIGHT BEFORE I was to leave for Bastrop State Park to put the ATXBreeze thru it's very first field test, an honest to goodness putting the trailer thru its paces outing I've been looking forward to, I asked my tenant David, at the last minute, to check the trailer tail lights while I braked, engaged the blinkers, y'know, test everything required of its lights.

Austin, Texas, November 7, 2018

AS SOON AS MY IPHONE ALARM went off at the ungodly hour of 5am, I went from being sound asleep to instantly being WIDE-AWAKE. Mr. Coffee, set on a timer the night before, had already started puffing and gurgling in the kitchen by the time I planted my bare feet on the floor and lurched for the nearest coffee cup. I

El Paso, Texas, November 7, 2018

WHEN I ARRIVED IN EL PASO, my Garmin GPS accurately directed me to my brother Robert's high rise condo on Stanton Street. I docked the car and trailer along a convenient curb, relaxed inside the trailer, snacked and texted my brother that the eagle had landed. Robert arrived shortly thereafter.

Fort Davis, Texas, November 26-29th, 2018

FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS I HAD THE DISTINCT DISPLEASURE of working in the movie business It more or less went like this: I worked on movies with terrible, average, and very occasionally OK scripts, with outrageously over-paid people who recited memorized lines while playing pretend